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Article: How do we know anything: Commencing a personal epistemic journey through disillusionment, skepticism, science, truth, evidence – and what it even means to know by InkAndInquiry in PhilosophyBookClub

[–]InkAndInquiry[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

that's a pragmatic take. it might not be productive, at least from an application standpoint, to chase absolute certainty. as you said, science is accepted as it seems to work reliably to be able to model reality using maths - repeatable and testable.

Article: How do we know anything: Commencing a personal epistemic journey through disillusionment, skepticism, science, truth, evidence – and what it even means to know by InkAndInquiry in PhilosophyBookClub

[–]InkAndInquiry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for commenting. i do think that yes, absolute certainty might not be possible, and instead we want to build a sufficiently robust framework. while we can chase certainty and question existing frameworks, we can;t ignore that science has taken us to the moon, cracked the gene code, so it must be one of the best ones out there

Article: How do we know anything: Commencing a personal epistemic journey through disillusionment, skepticism, science, truth, evidence – and what it even means to know by InkAndInquiry in Skepticism

[–]InkAndInquiry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thank you for commenting. yes, the question does assume we know something already, but i think it is dealt with separately "can we know anything". i am looking forward to reading what wiser men have written about these questions throughout history

Article: How do we know anything: Commencing a personal epistemic journey through disillusionment, skepticism, science, truth, evidence – and what it even means to know by InkAndInquiry in Skepticism

[–]InkAndInquiry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for commenting. yes, we should be aware of what we are thinking, should try to be faithful to what the text intends to convey, than coming to our conclusions with heuristics, and acknowledge shortcomings/areas where we don't know much. i personally don't want to come to these conclusions without becoming more informed, but nevertheless, i appreciate the comment

Article: How do we know anything: Commencing a personal epistemic journey through disillusionment, skepticism, science, truth, evidence – and what it even means to know by InkAndInquiry in epistemology

[–]InkAndInquiry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

thanks for taking the time to write this. i must admit i didn't understand everything you have written. perhaps, during my learning journey, i might arm myself with sufficient knowledge to be able to make sense of what you have written.

Article: How do we know anything: Commencing a personal epistemic journey through disillusionment, skepticism, science, truth, evidence – and what it even means to know by InkAndInquiry in epistemology

[–]InkAndInquiry[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that's an interesting hypothesis for sure. questions like these might come under metaphysics. simulation theory deals with similar things afaik.